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MORRIS, Horace Bowen

Service Numbers:	1629, NX27511
Enlisted:	22 February 1916, Narrabri
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/1st Boring Platoon
Born:	Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, 29 September 1898
Home Town:	Curlewis, Gunnedah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Natural causes, Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 1970, aged 71 years
Cemetery:	Gunnedah Cemetery, NSW N Ang D
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

22 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1629, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Narrabri
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1629, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
4 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 1629, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney
24 Jan 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 33rd Infantry Battalion
6 May 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 1629, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HT Kaisar-I-Hind, England for return to Australia - arrived 19 June 1919
3 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1629, 33rd Infantry Battalion

World War 2 Service

3 Jun 1941:	Enlisted NX27511, 1st Royal Australian Engineers Training Battalion, Gunnedah
2 Nov 1945:	Discharged NX27511, 2nd/1st Boring Platoon

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Biography contributed by Michael Silver